MJ Edmunds
- During my personal era at the Financial Times, the Berlin Wall fell, Nelson Mandela was released and became president, Bill Clinton entered and left the White House, Paul Keating was Australian prime minister, the Tate Modern gallery moved from idea in a former power station to reality, and a Brit did not win Wimbledon
- Collaborates with architects on winning (or close) proposals and narratives. A meeting of pencil & pens (and computers)
- Graduate, Birkbeck College, a night college at University of London, BSC (Hons) Economic and Social Policy
- A journalist in Australia, Hong Kong, London and roaming.
- Specialised in travel, tourism & hotel writing. How to see the world
- Assigned a newspaper column ‘Off Pat by Marian Edmunds’ at 19 but I wondered who ‘Pat’ was. The editor chose the name.
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- Always wanted to write. Apparently I told someone on the school bus to swimming when we were 12.
- Co-author Navigational Tips For Living In An Imperfect World (You’re all right as you are if only you knew it!) recognises past patterns of yourself and those around you and shows you how to read people and how to speak to them.
- Two novels, 3 bits of novels and many short stories, early days
- ‘Blue Blue Sky’, a story in city-pick New York, literary travel anthology amid stories by Truman Capote, Michael Cunningham, David Byrne, MartinAmis, Don DeLillo, Jonathan Franzen, Bob Dylan and F. Scott Fitzgerald
- ‘Don’t Forget Your Toothbrush’ about Turkish baths I’ve had in city-pick Istanbul literary travel anthology.
- ‘The Prodigal Daughter, tiny memoir piece, Griffith Review
- My day jobs are journalism, architectural writing, copywriting & coaching.
